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Its that time of year -- the final stretch -- when the Pac-12s nine-game conference schedule comes up.Washington is undefeated, at No. 4 in the AP Top 25 , and at No. 5 in the first College Football Playoff rankings. The Huskies appear to have a good shot at one of the four playoff spots -- if all the pieces fall into place.Last season, Stanford, with one loss on the road in the opener against Northwestern, looked like a possible contender for one of the four playoff spots, if only the Cardinal could finish strong. The Ducks proved to be spoilers, upsetting the Cardinal 38-36 at Stanford Stadium on Nov. 14.That sparked discussion about the leagues nine-game schedule. In the Power Five conferences, the Southeastern Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference play eight-game slates. The Big Ten went to nine games this season.The nine-game schedule has been criticized because its obviously more difficult, and theres less likelihood that a team will finish undefeated -- which therefore lowers the odds of getting coveted playoff berths. That challenges a conference where some key matchups are played late, impacting visibility.On the other side, there are those who say the tougher schedule, paired with a conference championship, creates better teams.We discuss it every couple of years, it comes up, Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said this weekend. I think with the new college football playoff we were thinking, `Is this the best model? Is there a different model? But I think we all believe strength of schedule will be rewarded by the selection committee if there are teams with similar records.That said, Scott said hed like to see the other conferences rise to the nine-game level.Across the league, coaches said theyd just like it to be equal -- at either eight or nine games -- across all conferences.If I just give you my own opinion of it, its pretty simple for me: All Power 5 teams should do the exact same thing. If they dont, its not fair. That being said, they all dont. Because its very, very difficult when you say youre going to play nine games within your schedule and then youre going to go beat each other up. But if everybody else is beating each other up, then I think its fine, Oregon State coach Gary Andersen said.Utah Coach Kyle Whittingham agreed: I dont lobby for it, but in my opinion all the Power 5 conferences should play the same amount of conference games and make it a level playing field and some standardization there. Because when you play a ninth game that gives everyone in the conference a chance to get another loss.Whittingham took it a step further, saying that hed like to see the playoffs expanded so that all the conference champions get in.To me it doesnt make any sense to not have a level playing field and then not have every champion get in. It doesnt make sense to me at all, he said.If were all feeding into a playoff system lets just play by the same rules, said Stanford coach David Shaw, who also suggested across-the-board consistency in non-conference scheduling against lower-tier teams.Colorado coach Mike MacIntyre said playing fewer games certainly hasnt hampered the SEC -- raising the point that the conference likely wont fix something that isnt broken for them.I think its a good thing that we do it, but I dont know if its really an advantage or not. I think its more talk that they keep playing those eight games and nothing happens, MacIntyre said.Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez said the nine-game schedule means that theres uneven home and away games, which also seems inequitable.The only thing about nine is there are five on the road and four at home, so its uneven every year and not every Power 5 conference has that, he said. That, and the championship game, makes the road to the playoffs so much harder in our league than maybe in others.The Huskies play at California this weekend, then host USC and Arizona State. The key game for Washington could turn out to be the Apple Cup rivalry game on Nov. 25 against Washington State, which popped into the AP rankings this week.It was no surprise that Washington coach Chris Petersen said he was in favor of uniformity across the conference landscape.I think so. And I know everyones conference is different, but I think you just look at the NFL and its pretty cut and dry. 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You hear about things like this that do happen, but you never think, Oh, this is going to happen to me.Its about to be 2017, Nikita Whitlock said.dddddddddddd Oppression, racism, hatred, violence, theres no need for that.A representative for Whitlock told ESPNs Josina Anderson that the players previous residence was also burglarized.Sgt. Richard Behrens told ESPN that the first incident at Whitlocks current residence, which occurred over the Thanksgiving holiday, was an act of vandalism in which a door window was broken.Whitlocks 10-game ban was for the same substance that cost him four games in 2014, according to an ESPN source. The second suspension will cost him $204,705 in salary.Whitlock, a second-year player out of Wake Forest, was already on season-ending injured reserve with a foot injury.Whitlock was the Giants fullback and a key special-teams contributor last season. He also played some as a pass-rushing defensive tackle. 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